Where does “Arthurian” come from?

Arthurian comes from English Arthur with the Latin suffix -ianus, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European -ós, a nominalizing suffix that formed agent nouns and personal names.

Arthurian (English): Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of...

Ancestry of “Arthurian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishArthurGuinness stout
2Middle EnglishArthure—
3LatinArthurus—
4Welsharthbear
5Proto-Brythonicarθbear
6Proto-Celticartosbear
7Ancient Greekἄρτοςa cake or loaf of wheat bread; bread

Words derived from “Arthurian”

Every word from Ancient Greek ἄρτος →Every word from Proto-Celtic artos →Every word from Proto-Brythonic arθ →